This crossword No. 22724 clues and answers were published on Fri 10 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22724 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Person of mixed race wanting to feature in Cummings’ copy : EMULATE
5-across – One supplying backing, born to lend a hand : BASSIST
10-across – Wear for battle : FRAY
11-across – Form of novel – early one with post involved : EPISTOLARY
12-across – One in store takes salt : SAILOR
13-across – Hugging serpent in embrace : CLASPING
14-across – Outfitter supplying more comfort about the belly : COSTUMIER
16-across – Foxy lady’s early night starts after 5 to 9 : VIXEN
17-across – Hold forth, getting odds miscalculated : SPOUT
19-across – Plant, say, with worker among the ancestry : EGLANTINE
23-across – Time to launch attack on spillage of Ruhr ooze : ZEROHOUR
24-across – Some grain on the scrubland railway : BUSHEL
26-across – Drive crazy, drinking wine in carriage : DEPORTMENT
27-across – List percussion effect : ROLL
28-across – Do something different with cold celery : RECYCLE
29-across – Daring to put ship’s front and plane’s tail on ship : PROWESS
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – King hastened to interrupt revolutionary convert : MARRANO
3-down – Look up song that’s true : LOYAL
4-down – Proposition others about mineral source : THEOREM
6-down – Off course like platter : ASTRAY
7-down – Drunk skirting edges is a self-sufficient type : SOLIPSIST
8-down – Singular way to ramble : STRANGE
9-down – Knot concealing yen to prepare to defend allotment : KITCHENGARDEN
15-down – Tense third-generation Scot holding record for redundancy : TAUTOLOGY
18-down – Lead many into deeper trouble : PRECEDE
20-down – Umpire arranged to eat snack : ARBITER
21-down – Virtually redundant indicators : NEEDLES
22-down – Article left beneath left entrance : PORTAL
25-down – Extort from S8 : SCREW
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.